provide schools, parents and others with an interest in education with details about schools and LA funding and expenditure;

provide data for the Departmental Annual Report (DAR);

inform policy making;

inform the Treasury for monitoring purposes;

inform Parliament in its role of monitoring the Department's accountability for public funds.

MPs ask about school and authority expenditure via the mechanisms of Parliamentary Questions or through the Education Select Committee.

All statements are prepared to a common format and the outturn statement must be presented in four parts for the prescribed period in the order specified: These statements are available for download on the right hand side of this page.

Summary Table - The summary provides a reconciliation between the 2007-08 section 52 Budget and the section 52 Outturn statements.

Table A

This is an overall picture of the spending on education provision by the Authority.

the first part of this Table is the 'Spending by Schools' section and is a summary of all school individual accounts.

the second part shows the 'Spending by LA within the Schools Budget' excluding delegated or devolved funding.

the third part is the section for LA central functions. It is split to show Central Administration and Support and Access sub-totals.

the fourth part is the Youth and Community element of the table.

The Youth Service annex relates to expenditure on the LA's Youth Service. The annex provides a further break down of expenditure shown in Table A

Table B

Table B is School level information. It provides a summary of individual schools' expenditure in respect of the 2007-08 financial year.